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Gain-smoothing in wideband speech and audio signal decoder

US7191123B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateNov 17, 2000
Grant dateMar 13, 2007
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Expiry dateAug 24, 2022

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG10L2019/0012
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

The gain smoothing method and device modify the amplitude of an innovative codevector in relation to background noise present in a previously sampled wideband signal. The gain smoothing device comprises a gain smoothing calculator for calculating a smoothing gain in response to a factor representative of voicing in the sampled wideband signal, a factor representative of the stability of a set of linear prediction filter coefficients, and an innovative codebook gain. The gain smoothing device also comprises an amplifier for amplifying the innovative codevector with the smoothing gain to thereby produce a gain-smoothed innovative codevector. The function of the gain-smoothing device improves the perceived synthesized signal when background noise is present in the sampled wideband signal.

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